Word: speak
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...penname of Ian Hay as the author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will lecture in the Living Room of the Union on Monday, February 12. In accordance with the purpose of his visit to this country as lecturing representative of England in the present war, Captain Beith will speak on some phase of the struggle from Great Britain's point of view, drawing from his wide experience in the Allied ranks as a member of the Tenth Argyl and Sutherland and Highlanders...
...striking commentary on the impartiality of Harvard men, which some sensational writers have striven in vain to assail, that two speakers holding such diverse opinions on great world events should speak under exactly the same conditions. With no show of boasting it may be said that the open-mindedness of the University's members is more than a word and a form. It is true in the sincerest spirit. All opinions that are sane and intelligent have here the same reception. They are judged on their merits...
Assistant Surgeon General W. C. Rucker of the U. S. Public Health service will speak at the weekly medical meeting in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at 8.15 o'clock...
...straw ballot held on January 18 80 per cent. of the Yale voters were in favor of some form of universal military training and, as representatives of the university, these five delegates will speak in support of such training...
...sometimes said that Harvard cannot allow propagandists to speak in College buildings because the University will then appear to be backing the speaker. But is this the case? Harvard has allowed Ian Hay to speak in Sanders. Nobody intimated that Harvard was, for that reason, pro-Ally. But when, the next month, Harvard excludes Mrs. Skeffington, the Boston Herald relates the incident on its front page with the statement that "it was generally understood among the students that the action of the College authorities was taken because of Mrs. Skeffington's supposed anti-British sentiments." There was also a foul...